With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.
Position Purpose:
The Project Manager is responsible for a combination of planning and execution of activities related to delivery of projects and/or financial/budgeting activity for their teams. When executing on project delivery, Project Leads are responsible for the success of one or more projects within a given timeline and budget, creation and maintenance of status reports, proactively managing issues and risks, and can work with 3rd party partners. When performing financial/budgeting activities they monitor and adjust to given budgets, track labor, capital spend, and support variance root cause analysis.
Key Responsibilities:
85% Delivery & Execution
- Partners with stakeholders to lead the project planning effort, including the formulation of the project scope, definition of the project deliverables and the required delivery dates, creation of a logical work breakdown structure, and definition of major project milestones.
- Understands organizational/initiative goals and success criteria to apply to project work.
- Experience in Agile, Waterfall or other project delivery methodologies. Ability and understanding of project plans and development, risk identification & mitigation. Applies lessons learned to inform future initiatives.
- Establishes and executes effective communication with Project Stakeholders Assists in development, then executes change management process and activities within Technology organization.
- Creates, monitors, tracks, and adjusts project plans based on critical milestones for a project of group of initiatives .
- Works with stakeholders to determine and align dependencies, then proactively risk and issues via identification and mitigation plans.
15% Resource and Financial Management
- Participates in vendor selection and onboarding processes in accordance with Home Depot policy; Can be involved with the purchase order and invoicing process for 3rd party vendors.
- Executes fiscal management and reporting for operational, product/business, technology, and vendor stakeholders; includes gross labor, capital spend, and non-labor forecasting for tracking, reporting, and variance analysis.
Direct Manager/Direct Reports:
- Position reports typically reports to a Manager, Delivery Management
- This position has no direct reports
Travel Requirements:
- Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.
Physical Requirements:
- Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
Working Conditions:
- Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Must be eighteen years of age or older.
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 2+ years of relevant work experience
- Experience working as a project manager delivering large scale IT hardware within a retail environment
- Professional Certifications (e.g. PMP)
- MS Project and office tools
- Experience with Microsoft Office tools and Project Management tools (MS Project, JIRA, etc.)
- Experience with the planning and execution of projects and risk mitigation strategies
- Experience managing technical projects
Minimum Education:
- The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a high school diploma and/or GED.
Preferred Education:
Minimum Years of Work Experience:
Preferred Years of Work Experience:
- No additional years of experience
Minimum Leadership Experience:
Preferred Leadership Experience:
Certifications:
Competencies:
- Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
- Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
- Financial Acumen: Interpreting and applying understanding of key financial indicators to make better business decisions
- Manages Ambiguity and Complexity: Operating effectively, even when things are not certain, or the way forward is not clear
- Results Orientation: consistently delivers on commitments, takes initiative, has a bias toward action, takes responsibility, shows individual accountability, has a sense of urgency, makes timely decisions. Ability to manage through influence/leverage partnerships.
- Project management execution in a modern software environment
For California, Colorado, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Nevada, New York City, Ithaca (NY), Westchester County (NY), and Washington residents:
The pay range for this position is between $65,000.00 - $180,000.00
